Superstitions along the Grand Enchantment Trail

[sirena]

It is thruhiking season on the Grand Enchantment Trail and the dry conditions are evident as soon as one crosses into Arizona. This is part of a message from the yahoo group:

Segment 1 - Superstition Wilderness from Rogers Trough to First Water Trailhead. More than any other area along the GET, this one would greatly benefit from a first-hand scouting and reporting back. (Any locals willing to brave it?) Life gets really difficult if Rogers Canyon is completely dry, especially since caching is hard to facilitate without access to a 4WD vehicle. The only source I'd count on would be perennial Charlebois Spring. Or, if I'm overstating the severity of conditions in this area - and that's certainly possible - then we might relax things to include La Barge Spring, East Boulder Canyon, and *maybe* Clover Spring.

The full message can be read here and is an interesting testament to how dry this summer was http://groups.yahoo.com/group/grand-enc ... essage/391

Here is a link to the chapter that has the route description: http://simblissity.net/get/guide-seg01.shtml

Anyone have some insight into the current state of these sources?

[nonot]

If I remember right, the GET goes: First Water to Charlesbois on the Dutchman, then Peters Trail, then JF to Tortilla Pass, then Rogers Canyon to Rogers Trough, then Reavis Trail Canyon.

I haven't been out there this fall yet but I would expect that with current conditions the only water you'll find is LaBarge Spring and Charlebois Spring and Desert Botanical Gardens Park. The last triplog I noticed indicated Angel Basin was dry. With any luck we'll start seeing storms in November to replenish the creeks.